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You step away from Mooldor’s body and brace yourself against the side of the wheelhouse as the deck of the ship sways from side to side. The mooring ropes and chains creak and groan as the hull of the Silver Virixe is battered by the raging waves. Bolts of lightning strike the pier and a deafening thunderclap explodes directly overhead. A feeling of cold dread grips your stomach; your Sixth Sense is screaming a warning that a great evil is fast approaching the vessel.

A loathsome Kraan emerges from the churning black clouds and swoops down to hover a few feet above the ship’s foredeck. Astride its back is a thin figure swathed in black robes edged with gold and scarlet braid. In his cadaverous hand he clutches a black orb that trails wisps of thin black smoke.

If you have ever visited Gazad Helkona, a fortress-city in the Darklands, in a previous New Order adventure, turn to 273.

If you have never visited Gazad Helkona, turn to 69.